Early morning run this morning. Bright sun when I left the house that turned into a downpour of rain at the start of the run. However I’m in the frame of mind at the moment where a little bit of rain won’t dampen my spirits to get the run done. This was a very strongContinue reading “Tuesday 24 May 2022”
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Tuesday 10 May 2022
Out early again for a run this morning As part of the training plan. This was another interval session to build run fitness and to get the commitment to training back as a regular feature of my working week. 5km total. It felt good this morning. Compared to weeks before this was a confident runContinue reading “Tuesday 10 May 2022”
Thursday 5 May 2022
When you wake up early in the morning and you don’t look for excuses and you don’t over think about how much of a struggle your run is going to be you know things are going in the right direction. Of course it does help that it was nice and sunny and not freezing coldContinue reading “Thursday 5 May 2022”
Run – Tuesday 3 May
Out early for the usual Tuesday morning run. Week three of the training plan for triathlons in the Summer. This morning was run two lampposts, walk 1 lamppost for 8 mins x 2 and ten mins warm up and warm down (jogging). We started this running fitness journey three weeks ago and in that timeContinue reading “Run – Tuesday 3 May”
Keeping Hold of Fitness 2022
23 April 2022 It’s been a while since I wrote here. I’ve been on this current fitness journey since 2017. At the point of getting a personal trainer and joining a gym. I had no idea how much of a change I would be making to my lifestyle. I was overweight, I was eating allContinue reading “Keeping Hold of Fitness 2022”
YouTube
I am planning to start a new YouTube channel in the new year. It will be my first venture into this however I am pretty excited to do it. I plan to talk about: My triathlon training, what’s working or not. What I am learning on my Masters in Applied Exercise Physiology and how thisContinue reading “YouTube”
2020 thoughts and plans for 2021
2020 has been… well interesting. It’s not been great and we all had such great hopes for it at the end of 2019. All plans soon came crashing down when it became apparent that we all needed to really take this strange virus serious. Covid-19 came into our world in March 2020 and like aContinue reading “2020 thoughts and plans for 2021”
Swimming Pool Etiquette
Swimming Pool Etiquette
July 2020 Training
July was a big month in terms of training. Most significantly I changed my approach to running by not paying a lot of attention to pace and concentrating on feel. I ramped up my running during July and then for the total distance for two years. Running felt good but it has been difficult toContinue reading “July 2020 Training”
Building Run Confidence
Run – 21 June 2020 It would’ve been easy to have not run this morning given the rain and high winds at 7.30am. I ran 7km without looking at my Garmin and just running to feel. This is my second time of doing this and its helping me cope with getting back into running outsideContinue reading “Building Run Confidence”
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